diff --git a/git.git-authors b/git.git-authors
index 3bc009fcc..905bdd24f 100644
--- a/git.git-authors
+++ b/git.git-authors
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ ok	Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
 ok	Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
 ok	Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
 ok	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
+ok	Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
 ok	Florian Forster <octo@verplant.org>
 ok	Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
 ok	Holger Weiss <holger@zedat.fu-berlin.de>